What was the formative sound of your childhood? Maybe it was the M train rattling the windows of your bedroom as it hurtled past your apartment six times an hour. Maybe it was the crunch of gravel in ...

A new, three-part series, “Searching, Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science,” now airing on public television, features MIT physicist and author Alan Lightman, who explores timeless and deep ...

years ago in a cave near Les Eyzies in the Dordogne, France. Credit: SEARCHING: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science Dr. Alan Lightman has been around the block a few times. Over the past five ...

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When you listen to experts who are using artificial intelligence in scientific endeavors, you realize how incredibly useful the capabilities of LLMs are in scientific discovery. Why? Well, science is ...